Air Forces Central announced Sunday that a USAF MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle had crashed in southern Afghanistan about 11:35 a.m. local time. The release from Bagram AB, Afghanistan offered no further information on the incident. It said the Air Force would launch an investigation.
Space Systems Command recently awarded Viasat a contract with a $450 million ceiling to design and field a mission operations center for the command’s burgeoning Space Data Network.